Weighing-refrigerator



A R. SACKETT.

WEIGHING REFRIGERATOR.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 16, 1919.

Patented Aug. 30,1921.

IN V EN TOR,

ATTORNEY.

- view taken upon the line looking in the direction of the PATENT OFFICE ARCHIE R. SACKETT; OF SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA.

WEIGHING-REFRIGERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 30, 1921.

Application fil ed December 16, 1919. Serial No. 345,365.

To all whom it may concern 1 Be it known that I, ARCHIE R. a citizen of the United States, residing at San Pedro, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new.

and useful Improvements in Weighing-Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to refrigerators, and has for its object to provide an in1- proved refrigerator wherein the weight of the ice supplied to the refrigerator may be indicated so that the purchaser of the ice or user of the refrigerator may be informed of the weight of the ice delivered and thus be able to calculate accurately the proper payment to be made for such ice. The use of the invention obviates the charging by the ice company or ice deliverer for short weights of ice. The invention has for further objects the provision of an improved refrigerator of the character stated, which will be relatively simple and inexpensive in construction and positive and reliable and durable in operation and use.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel and useful pg'ovision, formation, construction, combination, relative arrangement and association of parts, members and features, all as hereinafter described, shown in the drawing and finally pointed out in claim.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a re frigerator construction and organized in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view thereof, taken on the line w -w Fig. 3, and looking in the direction of the appended arrows;

Fig.'3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional as -00, Fig. 2, and appended arrows;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail fragmentary view of part of the indicator operating means; and,

Fig. 5 is a detail vertical fragmentary sectional view, taken upon the line afi-w, Fig. 1, parts being in elevation.

orresponding parts in all the figures are designated by the same reference characters.

Referring with particularity to the drawing, A designates the casing, and a and b the doors of a refrigerator having a hinged or other movable top closure 0, and provided SAoKET'r,

' drum 12 interiorly with a storage compartment or walled-oil chamber B provided with trays or shelves 6 for food or other articles to be kept cool and preserved. Above the chamber or casing B is provided a vertically movable ice pan or tray C upon which the ice is placed after being introduced within the refrigerator, as permitted by raising the cover or lid or other closure 0. Mounted upon the front wall 7 of the refrigerator is a suitable dial 8 in connection with graduations 9 upon which is to be read a pointer 10 mounted to rotate upon a shaft 11 journaled in the wall 7 and carrying at its inner end a spring drum 12 about which is wound a rope or cord 13 one end of which is attached to a stop or block 14 which projects beneath or is secured to an ice tray or pan C, such pointer and shaft and spring drum and connected parts constituting indi cating means D acting responsive to rise and fall of the ice pan C, and showing by the readings of the pointer 10 what weight of ice is imposed upon the pan C. The spring is of any suitable or preferred construction-and when pulled upon by the cord 13 in. the descent of the ice pan C, is put under tension, or its spring is wound up, so that as the ice pan rises the spring drum tends to return to position to cause the pointer to assume its normal zero reading position.

The ice pan C is provided with a plurality of downwardly directed legs 15 received in housings 16 formed or provided within the refrigerator A, and coil expansion springs 17 are disposed between the pan C and the tops of the housings 16, surrounding the legs 15 and directly receiving the weight of the ice pan C and the ice placed thereon.

A suitable drip cook 18 is provided to drain the waterfrom the melting ice from a water reservoir 19 within the refrigerator walls and surrounding the storage chamber B.

It is obvious that many changes and variations may be made in practising the invention, in departure from the specific disclosures of the drawing and the foregoing description, without departing from the true spirit of the invention.

Having thus disclosed my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A refrigerator, comprising a main casing, a commodity casing within the main casing, a spring-supp rted, movable ice "tray within the main casing and above the commodity casing, and indicating means disposed eX- teriorly of the main casing and operatively connected with the ice tray and whereby the weight of ice imposed upon such ice tray may be determined; said indicating means and a cord attached to said drum and wound upon the same and having an end joined with the ice tray; said ice tray being provided with a plurality of downwardly directed legs, housing members within the refrigerator for receiving said legs, coil expansion springs surrounding said legs disposed between the ice tray and the tops of the housing members; said housing members tending to direct the movement of the ice tray and the said spring members being adapted to receive the weight of the ice tray and ice placed thereon.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ARCHIE R. SAOKETT.

Witnesses;

J. SHUTT, J. CALVIN BROWN. 

